What's really the point of 'largest damages'? If its just going to be dismissed as frivolous and there really isn't any consequence to the person filing, why doesn't someone here just file one for a $Googleplex and be done with it?It's like kids arguing about how much better they are: I'm an infinity times better than you - no, I'm an infinityinfinity times better than you...

Just thought I'd clarify, the "pennies to Saturn" thing was referring to someone else who was "only" asking for quadrillions of dollars. We're talking about 10^21 times more pennies, which by my calculations, and assuming the previous Saturn figure is correct, would make a cylinder of pennies from earth to Saturn that's twice the Earth-Sun distance in diameter. We're... we're talking a lot of pennies.

Stacked one on top of another, the pennies would make a stack 310,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 km tall. That's 3.1E32 km. For reference, the distance from Earth to the Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.3E19 km. Assuming the bottom of the stack was at a fixed place on Earth and you could avoid having the pennies slip on one another somehow (IE the stack was the most rigid rod ever made), the tip of the rod would be experiencing the most severe relativistic time dilation since the Big Bang.

Light emitted from the front porchlight of the US Mint at the time it forged the first penny would only be 0.00000000000000068% up the stack today. In fact the stack would reach further than it is possible to see in the universe. If it existed back when the Big Bang happened, light from the end of the stack would not have had time to reach our planet yet.

and M is the mass of the material inside the sphere just before the black hole forms.

Assuming the payment is in pennies, the US penny has mpenny = 2.5 grams and Vpenny = 360 mm3. The density of the US penny is then ρpenny = 7600 kg/m3. (There's a geometric factor we should include here due to the space packing)